Highlighted Events from OctoberTue 08 Oct 1872John Cowper Powys, Welsh novelist, born.Sun 05 Oct 1873Leslie Montgomery, comic writer under the pseudonym Lynn C. Doyle, is born in in Downpatrick, Co. DownThu 28 Oct 1909Birth in Dublin of Sir Francis Bacon, painterThu 22 Oct 1389Thomas Mortimer who was appointed justiciar on 5 March is replaced by John de Stanley who lands at Howth on this dateoctober
